What a fun weekend we had with family visiting from California, including one super adorable, three month old grand-niece. Nice treat for Labor Day before life becomes all about routines and back to the business of work and school and regular activities. Although I’m sorry to see the warm weather depart, I do love routine and organization. Especially in the kitchen….in the form of healthy habits. What? You didn’t guess? Let’s get real though……snack time happens. It’s not so much an “if” than a “when?” The question is whether or not you’ll be ...
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Healthy Fruit Crisp
Healthy Fruit Crisp: Simple for people who don't have time to cook. When I was growing up, my grandmother used to make cooked fruit for dessert, ALL THE TIME! She kept it in large pickle jars in the refrigerator. Sometimes, if we were lucky, we were able to have some for an after-school snack, or maybe even sneak some for breakfast. Because she gave this to us for dessert, we thought of it as a decadent treat. I didn’t realize until much later in life that other kids were eating sugary, often packaged, desserts every night! My grandmother cooked fruit on the stove, until it was ...
Simple Gazpacho Recipe
Why is it so hard to find a simple gazpacho recipe with clean ingredients? Between my love of farmer’s markets and my weekly CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) share, I always have an abundance of local fresh produce. So, last week, as I was sifting through my loot, I realized that I had lots of awesome ingredients for a simple gazpacho and quickly googled for a recipe….but alas, nothing with clean ingredients that I wanted to make. Good thing recipe development is a strong suit of mine. Fresh ingredients from the farmer's market make this simple gazpacho ...
Nectarine Salad Recipe
What’s one thing that makes you know you’re in the midst of summer? For me it’s a trip to the cape. We just returned from a few days in Wellfleet, which were spectacular and filled with good food, good friends and some much needed extra sleep! Besides a good trip to Cape Cod, I’m clear that summer is in full swing when the local stone fruit shows up in abundance in farmers markets and the grocery store features local stone fruit. My favorite of the bunch is nectarines. When perfectly ripe, they are sweet and juicy, but still a bit tangy. If you're looking for more ways ...
Healthy Chocolate Granola
Granola. Healthy, or not? That is the question. I’ve been scouring the packages in stores for a healthy chocolate granola for quite some time because my husband really likes granola and he is so tired of coming home from the grocery claiming to have found a healthy option only to have me read through the label and show him why it’s just not so. I went to many stores and finally decided that I would just have to make some myself. Even on-line it was hard to find a recipe for healthy chocolate granola that actually lived up to the “healthy” hype. Recently ...